So, I have been really vibing with Elizabeth Gilbert over the past year, and now I understand even more so why, she just released her newest book about the intense experience she had in the last 6 months of her partner's life.....she really frames it around codependency as addiction, but I feel like there is another layer of just seeing the human experience as completely disconnected from circumstances, I've been really finding solace lately in the way in which with the internet we are able to see that the people who "have it all" are experience as much distress about being in human form as the rest of us, Glennon Doyle is another example of this, I mean if these people who have all the love and fame and money and purpose and are living their passions and all the access to every therapy and resource are still diving into the underworld on a regular basis then maybe we are just meant to be diving into the underworld on a regular basis, maybe this whole idea of escaping it is part of what makes it so brutal, and maybe if we were like, this is where I'm supposed to be when we are in distress, maybe that has more honesty and grace, anyways, I just found this interview really satisfying and I'm looking forward to reading the book! xo

Our relationship with bodies, food and fatness has been coming up in sessions and my personal life lately and I've put together some resources that I thought might be worth sharing: Alok Vaid Menon is my favorite describer of the experience of having a body in this world. This episode where they talk about the body as an altar was really transformative for me. Overcoming Body Hatred by Kathryn Holt is a powerful workbook. I really love the Jungian perspective she incorporates. The history of anti-fatness and its relationship with anti-blackness is something that can be really interesting to explore as a part of this conversation. The book Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings is an awesome overview. Here is an article about it if you want to check it out before reading the whole book.

thanks @Matthew Milbourne ! This is a really great description of fawning

This is so well explained!

One of our very own, @Ash Thalman wrote this epic letter to self after traveling and realizing some things her nervous system would have really appreciated. It's titled: Letter to a Perimenopausal Neurodivergent Traveler in her 40s! It has inspired me to write my own just general operating instructions for myself (did any of you read that book Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott? so gooood!)! I'd love to hear what others would write!